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View submission: Lets talk about those API calls
Numbers look good enough, and the cost is stupid as far as I can tell.
One question though - those 135K API calls and whatever data goes through as a result, equates to how much bandwidth? And how much might that *cost* reddit?
(Assuming any of that makes sense, I don't know much about the behind-the-scenes workings.)
Comment by mmmmmmBacon12345 at 05/06/2023 at 23:56 UTC
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Less than imgur who serves up mainly images and not text like reddit
For 50,000,000 queries imgur charges just $166, Reddit wants to charge $12,000
Comment by Meepster23 at 05/06/2023 at 23:55 UTC
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That's a good question! For the most part the calls aren't that bandwidth intensive. Especially for the frequent calls to check for unread messages etc. Those are in the kilobyte range.
The large ones are mostly large **because** of Reddit and the sheer amount of bullshit they put into the response. No third party gives a shit if a user is opted in to a Reddit experiment or even what that experiment is lol.
Also it is tiny in comparison to the tracking data being sent back from the official app to Reddit. Which seems to be basically a dump of everything currently visible on your screen including all the text and shit which is odd since it would all be retrievable by id.. but yeah.. their development practices haven't exactly impressed me